Do you remember Enviro-Bear game for the iPhone? Now, BlinkBat Games, the creators of Enviro-Bear is back with Skullpogo, a casual action arcade game where your main character is riding a pogo stick stomping halloween creatures and that’s the main gameplay for that. Trust me, stomping zombies, vampire pigs, golden bats, ghosts, and many others is so addicting especially racking up your combo without your character ever touching the ground.

You control your character by means of 3 options – accelerometer control where you tilt you device left or right, touch and point control where you drag your finger and your character will be where it’s at, and lastly, on-screen left and right arrows. The tilt controls works so perfectly and is the one I prefer but the other options works just as good. You can control the height of your character’s bounce by tapping the one of the three buttons on the side – low, medium, high.

As you play the game, you must stomp the creatures that arrives, this will score you points, get combos by consecutively stomping one creature to another and so on, this will rack you big bonus points. Additionally, various power-ups appear at random o the game that will make you an even more powerful pogo rider beating the hell out of the creatures. Its such a bummer that you won’t be provided with any info about what a certain power-up does. Common sense will just let you know what a power-up does. But it really won’t hurt if we have some more knowledge on before we even decide to pick those out.

There are two gameplay modes in Skullpogo, Classic and Halloween modes. There really isn’t much of a difference between the two modes, it’s very subtle like for example in Halloween mode, there is a ghost creature there where it doesn’t have in classic mode. I hope there are really some huge difference between the two, enough to distinguish them gameplay-wise. Each mode consists of 5 levels, in my opinion is just enough because the main goal here is to collect the highest score possible within this 5-level limit. Perfectly suits pick-up and play situations.

And when you think you’re a skilled Skullpogo player, submit your score to the online leaderboards via Openfeint and see for yourself how you compete against the world. Replayability is pretty high too with the games quirky achievements that is challenging yet so fun.

Graphics and sound looks so retro and that’s a compliment. Very smooth animations and effects, its fun to see stomping on a zombie’s head and see it plucking out in the air. Music is cool too and never gets repetitive after a long game.

Overall, Skullpogo is great arcadey game that you can either play for 5 minutes or even for an hour, that’s how addicting this game is. Plus, online leaderboards and achievements that will last you more gameplay hours. The developers even promosed some exciting updates for the game so keep an eye out for that. Skullpogo has a great old-school presentation, its like how will Castlevania will look and sound like if they added pogos and humor. Definitely two thumbs up!